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I stopped studying the cello. I started studying Arabic. I grew up on the other side of the middle of nowhere and am an inveterate urban dweller now. I like mathematics, fountain pens, and TTRPGs. https://sidewalks.meangrape.com
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Jay. @meangrape.com · Oct 18
My 17yo daughter just asked me “is AD the same as CE?” The yiddishkeit is strong in this one
I don’t have butternut squash, but I do have red kuri squash. Five-spice red kuri squash pie?
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
@sailormoondamus.gobirds.online Because you don't get enough at work
@drsarteschi.bsky.social Sovcit did this to her car. It resulted in the car being towed and a cop ripping the plate off of it before hauling it away. Sovcit was not pleased.
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I suppose I could make five spice & armangac apple pie for Thursday
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“We’ve noticed on days you incorporate candy you keep your total calories lower.”

I don’t want to keep my calories lower. I’m eating junk food for more calories.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Russian caravan
11. Tea lovers, what is your favorite flavor of tea?
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
50 more calories. I need to find 50 more calories.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I need a pareve sweet thing besides these apricot filled cookies I don’t want to eat
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Duck tsukemen
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I just realized I would be a good member here. Grocery store jobs I’ve had: produce, butcher, food sales & demo cook, accountant, assistant store manager. I like working in grocery stores.
We need extra member labor this week - can you bank a shift? Many different jobs and times are open…
foodcoop.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“1. Eema’s side of family is stereotypical super poor ashki dipping the shtetl in the 20s”.

Good old Hinda Malka Shtetlman
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Also oreos
I’m so bad at getting my calories that my food tracker has patterns like “on days you eat candy bars and entire bags of chips your calories are down”
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In descending order of importance: a lot of luck, interviewing well, and being good with computers
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Jay.
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
So many smiles
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Jay.
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm designing this code so rogue workers can connect at any time! Bad security! Bad!
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today, thinking about things makes them more complicated. Also I should eat something. Lentils and rice with tamarind? Wait, I think I'm out of tamarind. Maybe I have preserved lemons.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I just got spam from "cobralogic.world". I might get a t-shirt made
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Jay.
People act like the Trump administration is extreme, but consider that in the past 12 hours alone, his White House has announced that the Coast Guard has reversed its recent decision to tolerate swastikas and nooses, *and* that Trump does not in fact want to execute members of Congress.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Izzie called me at 4am this morning. "I know it's 4am, but I have a question about cooking rice and Shabbos is in 4 hours." Not only am I the textiles parent, I am the rice parent
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A casual hwæt. I like it
"Lo"
Beowulf, 1925
Albert Baugh 🇺🇸
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I have too much production experience. Everything I write has to have logging. "Let's see, oh, yes, definitely a DEBUG level. And rotation; we have to have log rotation. Configurable level filtering. Just a few CLI options. UUIDs for job identification. Can't just have printfs."
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I’m going to snack on some peanut butter pretzels before I go to sleep
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I microwaved some leftover beef shawarma on a ceramic plate for one minutes. The plate shattered into three pieces at the 45 second mark. I want a refund
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m going to make a bot that replies to every occurrence of someone saying “I made a consommé” with “Did you use a raft?”
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM